Since dropping DECNET is just a proposal and needs to be voted on, what’s the chance the vote will pass?
Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 4, 2022, at 14:08, Grant Taylor via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 8/4/22 2:12 PM, Doc Shipley via cctalk wrote: >> This becomes an actual showstopper when the most recent hardware platform >> that will run the most recent Linux kernel to support DECNet becomes >> impossible to maintain. > > I'm not convinced that the inability to boot the newest kernel that supports > DECnet will be in and of itself a show stopper. > > I believe it will be possible to run said kernel as a user space process a > la. User Mode Linux (arch=um) with a virtual NIC that is bridged to the > external Ethernet NIC. > > There's still the possibility of running the older kernel in a VM even when > it won't run native on the hardware. > >> In other words you'll probably want to put your DECNet bridge system behind >> a more current firewall fairly soon, but DECNet in current Linux >> distributions will not stop working then it's dropped from future versions. > > I suspect that is and has been the case for a good while. ;-) > >> No offense, people, but the sky is not falling. > > Agreed. > > > > -- > Grant. . . . > unix || die
